Searching Your Site
Every EditMe site includes a built-in site search. You can use this to search the contents of your site to find pages, comments and attachments that contain certain words.
Specifically, the following data points are included in the search index:
Pages
- Page content (the "visible" text content extracted from HTML)
- Page name
- Page title
- Login name of user who last edited the page
Comments
- Comment content (the "visible" text content extracted from HTML)
- Page name the comment was made on
- Login name of user who made the comment
Attachments
- Text content extracted from the file (see list of supported types below)
- Description of the file entered on EditMe's Attachments screen
- Name of the file
- Page name the file is attached to
- Login name of the user that uploaded (or most recently updated) the file
Users who do not have access to view a given page will not be able to find that page in the search results. Additionally, if the page doesn't have a Page Title or has the Hide Page page property set, it will not appear in search results.
Search Tips
- If your search term is found on 50% or more of your sites pages, it will be ignored.
- Search for apple* to find pages containing apple, apples, applesauce, and applet.
- Search for apple banana to find pages that contain at least one of these words.
- Search for "apple juice" to find pages containing the phrase apple juice.
- Search for +apple +banana to find pages that contain both of these words.
- Search for +apple banana to find pages that contain apple, and of those, list pages that contain banana at the top.
- Search for +apple -banana to find pages that contain apple, but not banana.
My Attached File Wasn't Found
If you're searching for an attachment that you expected to find in the results but did not, there are a few possible reasons. First, be sure the file is one of the supported types. Not all file types are searchable with EditMe. Here is the current list of searchable file types:
If your file is one of those types and still cannot be found, it's possible there's some minor corruption or idiosyncrasy about the file that is tripping up EditMe's text extracting tool. If you submit the file to EditMe support we can take a look and see what the problem is.
Ignored Words
In order to optimize performance and increase the quality of search results, the following search words are ignored.
| a's | able | about | above | according |
| accordingly | across | actually | after | afterwards |
| again | against | ain't | all | allow |
| allows | almost | alone | along | already |
| also | although | always | am | among |
| amongst | an | and | another | any |
| anybody | anyhow | anyone | anything | anyway |
| anyways | anywhere | apart | appear | appreciate |
| appropriate | are | aren't | around | as |
| aside | ask | asking | associated | at |
| available | away | awfully | be | became |
| because | become | becomes | becoming | been |
| before | beforehand | behind | being | believe |
| below | beside | besides | best | better |
| between | beyond | both | brief | but |
| by | c'mon | c's | came | can |
| can't | cannot | cant | cause | causes |
| certain | certainly | changes | clearly | co |
| com | come | comes | concerning | consequently |
| consider | considering | contain | containing | contains |
| corresponding | could | couldn't | course | currently |
| definitely | described | despite | did | didn't |
| different | do | does | doesn't | doing |
| don't | done | down | downwards | during |
| each | edu | eg | eight | either |
| else | elsewhere | enough | entirely | especially |
| et | etc | even | ever | every |
| everybody | everyone | everything | everywhere | ex |
| exactly | example | except | far | few |
| fifth | first | five | followed | following |
| follows | for | former | formerly | forth |
| four | from | further | furthermore | get |
| gets | getting | given | gives | go |
| goes | going | gone | got | gotten |
| greetings | had | hadn't | happens | hardly |
| has | hasn't | have | haven't | having |
| he | he's | hello | help | hence |
| her | here | here's | hereafter | hereby |
| herein | hereupon | hers | herself | hi |
| him | himself | his | hither | hopefully |
| how | howbeit | however | i'd | i'll |
| i'm | i've | ie | if | ignored |
| immediate | in | inasmuch | inc | indeed |
| indicate | indicated | indicates | inner | insofar |
| instead | into | inward | is | isn't |
| it | it'd | it'll | it's | its |
| itself | just | keep | keeps | kept |
| know | knows | known | last | lately |
| later | latter | latterly | least | less |
| lest | let | let's | like | liked |
| likely | little | look | looking | looks |
| ltd | mainly | many | may | maybe |
| me | mean | meanwhile | merely | might |
| more | moreover | most | mostly | much |
| must | my | myself | name | namely |
| nd | near | nearly | necessary | need |
| needs | neither | never | nevertheless | new |
| next | nine | no | nobody | non |
| none | noone | nor | normally | not |
| nothing | novel | now | nowhere | obviously |
| of | off | often | oh | ok |
| okay | old | on | once | one |
| ones | only | onto | or | other |
| others | otherwise | ought | our | ours |
| ourselves | out | outside | over | overall |
| own | particular | particularly | per | perhaps |
| placed | please | plus | possible | presumably |
| probably | provides | que | quite | qv |
| rather | rd | re | really | reasonably |
| regarding | regardless | regards | relatively | respectively |
| right | said | same | saw | say |
| saying | says | second | secondly | see |
| seeing | seem | seemed | seeming | seems |
| seen | self | selves | sensible | sent |
| serious | seriously | seven | several | shall |
| she | should | shouldn't | since | six |
| so | some | somebody | somehow | someone |
| something | sometime | sometimes | somewhat | somewhere |
| soon | sorry | specified | specify | specifying |
| still | sub | such | sup | sure |
| t's | take | taken | tell | tends |
| th | than | thank | thanks | thanx |
| that | that's | thats | the | their |
| theirs | them | themselves | then | thence |
| there | there's | thereafter | thereby | therefore |
| therein | theres | thereupon | these | they |
| they'd | they'll | they're | they've | think |
| third | this | thorough | thoroughly | those |
| though | three | through | throughout | thru |
| thus | to | together | too | took |
| toward | towards | tried | tries | truly |
| try | trying | twice | two | un |
| under | unfortunately | unless | unlikely | until |
| unto | up | upon | us | use |
| used | useful | uses | using | usually |
| value | various | very | via | viz |
| vs | want | wants | was | wasn't |
| way | we | we'd | we'll | we're |
| we've | welcome | well | went | were |
| weren't | what | what's | whatever | when |
| whence | whenever | where | where's | whereafter |
| whereas | whereby | wherein | whereupon | wherever |
| whether | which | while | whither | who |
| who's | whoever | whole | whom | whose |
| why | will | willing | wish | with |
| within | without | won't | wonder | would |
| would | wouldn't | yes | yet | you |
| you'd | you'll | you're | you've | your |
| yours | yourself | yourselves | zero |